How long does it take to read The Red Tree?
The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan takes about 7 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 385 pages, about 105,875 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sarah Crowe left Atlanta, and the remnants of a tumultuous relationship, to live alone in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house's former tenant—a parapsychologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on a desolate corner of the property. And as the gnarled tree takes root in her imagination, Sarah risks her health and her sanity to unearth a revelation planted centuries ago…
Subjects: Trees, Fiction, Fantasy, Manuscripts, Fiction, fantasy, general
